Some Tory AMs suggest their main sources of intelligence on upcoming coalition policy and strategy announcements from Westminster are largely corridor chats with Liberal Democrat AMs - who, they feel, are kept considerably better in the loop about what's coming down the track.

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Mr. RUSSELL WHATLEY (Car Dealer): We were given three weeks to shut down operations, and it just pretty threw everybody for a loop.

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What it seems to boil down to is this: being left out of the loop is perceived as a signal that one has low status or standing in the group.

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Users can then split, loop, copy, paste, and share individual clips, or mix down entire songs and upload them directly to SoundCloud, all from within the Animoog's universe.

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One is sending down devices to try to better understand where a current in the Gulf known as the Loop Current might take the oil.

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"He would make a big funny loop off the usual route and we knew it was time to start locking down on him, " she said.

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Lawrence decided to attack from the east instead, coming at the city from the unprotected desert, and to do that he led his men on an audacious, six-hundred-mile loop up from the Hejaz, north into the Syrian desert, and then back down toward Aqaba.

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They told me to walk down the long, tree-lined driveway and wait in the street for a shuttle bus that makes a loop of the various Atlantis properties.

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